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  • 02 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

some social media platforms soar while others fizzle, and how business can use them to generate profit. "I have always been fascinated that humans interact online when we can interact offline as we have for thousands View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella
Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace, and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Small Business; Retail Industry; Canada
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  • 08 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the UK. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

we view employment. If we manage this shift well, we’ll be creating an engine for economic growth. Mess it up and we’ll stifle a major driver of innovation, business creation, and jobs. View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

basis for specifying the responsibilities of business managers. The second is framing the role of business in society by looking to the values realized by the basic building blocks View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

efforts of the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I... View Details
  • Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt helped grow IAG Research, which became the arbiter of advertising effectiveness. IAG was acquired by Nielsen.   Matt holds a B.A. in Economics from Columbia College and an M.B.A. from HBS. He earned his... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

U.S. Market Framework for Gasoline, The: Individual Incentives and Societal Goals in Global Markets

By: Bruce R. Scott and Edward Murphy
Traces the role of gasoline taxes in financing U.S. highways and the use of regulations to increase fuel economy to show how and why the U.S. market framework for gasoline is so different from that in Europe. Focuses on whether the U.S. tax should be raised, as... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Sources; Digital Platforms; Sovereign Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; United States; Europe
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  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

capture share by foreclosing an incumbent's access to users; in doing so, they harness the network effects that previously had protected the incumbent. We present a typology of envelopment attacks based on whether View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Peggy Yin | MBA

contexts fraught with warring economic priorities while blossoming in communities using digital platforms to express true, untold stories. Learning from these narratives at the... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Books

Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In her new book Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture View Details
Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path Ahead

heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social... View Details
  • February 2001
  • Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy

In the late 1990s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris has emerged as the dominant UNIX-based alternative to Microsoft for server operating systems. At the same time, the open source operating system Linux has appeared unexpectedly, and it is generating significant excitement... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Standards
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  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

715-039 The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-060 Building the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1995
  • Case

Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island

By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Soon-Siong Neo
Describes the actions taken by the government of Singapore to enable the country to survive and prosper after it achieved independence in the late 1960s. Recognizing that its small size, limited natural resources, but excellent location placed it in a vulnerable... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Communication Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Singapore
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  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

should the company adopt to protect their intellectual property? How much should the company invest in anti-piracy initiatives? Should releases be restricted only to more secure digital screens? Should the company be concerned about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Game Time Decision for AppDirect

By: Andrei Hagiu, Laura Arjona and Emily Zhang
AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is faced with the key question of deciding distribution strategy: should AppDirect find channel... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Distribution; Applications and Software; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

new product and, if so, what terms he should offer new and existing investors to finance the next phase of product development. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne